Word: segregationism
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Such stereotyping of houses is typical--and unfortunately grounded in fact. For a campus as "diverse" as Harvard, there are remarkable levels of homogeneity within the Houses. As approximately 85 percent of students currently receive one of their four Housing choices, the Housing lottery invariably leads to self-segregation, racial...
The issue of self-segregation and House stereotyping is certainly not new to Harvard. A Crimson poll in 1989 showed that two thirds of first-years said that their housing choices were influenced by the various House stereotypes. The Committee on House Life, composed of Undergraduate Council representatives, House Masters...
This issue becomes complicated as most of the self-segregation takes place on a near-unconscious level. Unless students are actively pursuing diverse friendships, it is much easier to find friends predominantly among members of your own race or interest group.
We toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned...
Scientists admitted that the quake erupted around a hidden fault line that they could not immediately identify. But there are other fault lines that concern Californians just as much. During the past three months, a running turf battle between rival black and Latino gangs in the largely middle-class districts...